Soon to Come: Designer Babies!

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Here they come:

Genetics in Medicine: “I prefer a child with …”: designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics.

The patent’s claims to a method for gamete donor selection: “A method for gamete donor selection"

Taken out of “patentese,” what 23andMe is claiming is a method by which prospective donors of ova and/or sperm may be selected so as to increase the likelihood of producing a human baby with characteristics desired by the prospective parents, the selection being based on a computerized comparison of the genotypic data of the egg provider with that of the sperm provider. The phenotypic characteristics that may be on the users’ (e.g., parents’) “shopping list” can include both disease-related and non–disease-related traits, such as height, eye color, muscle development,.....

[ldquo]I prefer a child with [hellip][rdquo]: designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics : Genetics in Medicine : Nature Publishing Group

So, how far away are we from breeding the perfect athlete, woman, man, worker-bee (for a fee). If only Hitler would have been born 100 years later!

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